Question

I’m bit confused by “easy” working with ruby on rails, cause I already spend three days by trying create an app.

I work on site5 hosting, and try to create new app. step by step:

$ rails new app -d mysql

$ gem install mysql

$ gem install mysql2

and after

$ rake db:create

it report about error

Could not find gem 'mysql2 (~> 0.2.6, runtime)' in any of the gem sources listed in your Gemfile.

I google it, but still can’t fix problem. Can anybody help?

Answer 1

Running rails new app -d mysql will automatically add the required gems to your Gemfile, so you shouldn’t need to install them manually with the gem command. Try the following:

$ rails new app -d mysql
$ cd app
$ bundle install
$ rake db:create

I suspect the tutorial you’re following is for an older version of Rails. With rails 3, you should be using bundler for all gem management.